Moving beavers from their established homes is wrong.

These intelligent animals that work hard to maintain their home environments and produce family after family over the years in their chosen and established locations should not be moved.

We have learned to cohabit with bears and other wildlife allowing their habits. Beavers give us little or no difficulty. They can earn our respect be quietly doing their work to stabilize the environment and improve out landscape. Exceptionally intelligent and skilled, peaceful and harmless, the beavers have earned every right to remain in their established homes. To cause them difficulties and possible harm they may encounter in an unfamiliar area is to act without sufficient thought, and may be unnecessary.

Fish and wildlife and state officials and engineers should be able to create practical and humane solutions that will allow the beavers to remain in the chosen home areas they have found ideal for their survival for many years, as well as any needed improvements to the dam situation.

Edith Bunningh

Vergennes